Laptops / Notebooks for home use: Asus, Acer, Toshiba, etc.

[Retz]

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Good read sir. Buying laptops according to your needs.

[EE100shiro]

What are you evaluating the quality of the Logo pasted on the laptop ?

HP doesn't make a laptop
Dell doesn't make a laptop
Toshiba doesn't make a laptop

Quanta makes laptops for all three..... so does Compal....so does Inventec ......could we expect HP's Quanta made unit to be better then Dell's Quanta made unit or Toshiba's Quanta made unit ?

That leaves Asus as the only actual laptop manufacturer in the bunch. I find users have good luck with them as long as the get the "base" CPU for the model and don't customize by adding a "CPU upgrade". The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Original Design Manufacturers (ODM's) who slap a brand name on the the thing. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP, Dell and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
Clevo sells to FalcolnNorthwest, Sager, Eurocom, WidowPC and many other "boutique" brands....including Alienware before Dell bought em.

[beni23]

no one is mentioning apple macbook pro?

Adviceable ba ang macbook air for students like me? I need an app like microsoft office. Yun lang talaga. Is there an ios version of this?


#Retzing

[e2romo]

Adviceable ba ang macbook air for students like me? I need an app like microsoft office. Yun lang talaga. Is there an ios version of this?


#Retzing

Meron iOS version, saw it at Octagon, MS Office 360. Magulang na MS ngayon, license nila ginawa nilang subscription base, every year bayad ka 3k.

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[Retz]

What are you evaluating the quality of the Logo pasted on the laptop ?

HP doesn't make a laptop
Dell doesn't make a laptop
Toshiba doesn't make a laptop

Quanta makes laptops for all three..... so does Compal....so does Inventec ......could we expect HP's Quanta made unit to be better then Dell's Quanta made unit or Toshiba's Quanta made unit ?

That leaves Asus as the only actual laptop manufacturer in the bunch. I find users have good luck with them as long as the get the "base" CPU for the model and don't customize by adding a "CPU upgrade". The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Original Design Manufacturers (ODM's) who slap a brand name on the the thing. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP, Dell and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
Clevo sells to FalcolnNorthwest, Sager, Eurocom, WidowPC and many other "boutique" brands....including Alienware before Dell bought em.

Are all those laptop manufacturers base in china or taiwan perhaps sir?

[Retz]

Adviceable ba ang macbook air for students like me? I need an app like microsoft office. Yun lang talaga. Is there an ios version of this?


#Retzing

meron sir ung iwork for mac talaga un. yep, adivsable sa students ang air.

[badkuk]

update lang on my thinkpad x230: quite disappointed with the quality. Out of the box i noticed flexing on the top right edge of the lid, to the point that the display bezel pops out. Then there's some wiggle with the battery.

i contacted the local service center here, and was advised that the flexing corner may not be covered by the international warranty.

MIL-spec'd? Used by NASA? i must have gotten a lemon. Let's just say that this is probably my first and last thinkpad. Buti pa eeepc ko, all these years, no flexing, no battery wiggle....nilalaspag ko pa naman yun.

[beni23]

Almost bought an HP touchscreen laptop kahapon. Buti na lang napigilan ako ng gf ko. Yung macbook air na nga lang talaga bibilhin ko.


#Retzing

[ghosthunter]

update lang on my thinkpad x230: quite disappointed with the quality. Out of the box i noticed flexing on the top right edge of the lid, to the point that the display bezel pops out. Then there's some wiggle with the battery.

i contacted the local service center here, and was advised that the flexing corner may not be covered by the international warranty.

MIL-spec'd? Used by NASA? i must have gotten a lemon. Let's just say that this is probably my first and last thinkpad. Buti pa eeepc ko, all these years, no flexing, no battery wiggle....nilalaspag ko pa naman yun.

you should have gone with ASUS. For the same money, you can purchase an ultrabook within your budget range (from the P20K to the P70K range).

So far my Asus ZENBOOK ultrabook is still as tight as it came out of the box. It only has a few light scratches on it's bottom to show it's been around, including trips abroad like Indonesia, Thailand and HK.

I also bought a midrange Asus ultrabook with built-in optical drive (just over P30K) when my brother wanted to replace his aging desktop PC. It has similar looks to my ZENBOOK but has a plastic underchassis. Other than that, it's aluminum lid and aluminum upper chassis still gives it a classy modern look that might be mistaken for a Macbook.

[badkuk]

i bought an Ideapad Y550 a few years ago; a few creaks here and there, but overall pasado sa akin ang build quality. Our office also has a few R50e which are holding up quite nicely after all these years...i just assumed a thinkpad would be even better


naka first strike na rin sa akin ang asus, what with the defective lcd on my nexus 7. They're not really pushing their business class laptops here though.

[ghosthunter]

naka first strike na rin sa akin ang asus, what with the defective lcd on my nexus 7. They're not really pushing their business class laptops here though.

So far I have been lucky with my Nexus 7 ... the LCD has no issues yet. I have had it since start of the year.

[Retz]

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Paanong defective ung screen sir badkuk?

[badkuk]

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Paanong defective ung screen sir badkuk?

At first, just some random annoying stuff: bigla na lang nagzozoom if you press on one spot for too long, slow response, etc. Then one day the lower half of the screen just went dead.

To Asus's credit, nireplace naman niya yung LCD, and it seems to work fine...although i'm starting to get some of the symptoms at random again. Sana sa Chrome lang yung issue.

[Retz]

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wala bang issue sa video card sir? lcd lang?

[badkuk]

hmm pagkasabi naman sa service report, "defective LCD"...it didn't mention any video card/GPU issues

[e2romo]

Planning to get the new Nexus 7, gen 2, by December. Hoping by the said time all of the issues have come out and the biggies have already been resolved. So far here are the problems I've read so far from the web:
Multi-touch issues
WiFi
GPS

There were mention of YouTube and Play Store problems on WiFi also.

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[Retz]

hmm pagkasabi naman sa service report, "defective LCD"...it didn't mention any video card/GPU issues

ung issue ko with HP laptop before, may parang naluluwag naman daw sa videocard component kaya nagkakaroon ng lines sa screen. but not an lcd issue.

[miLes]

looking at asus s46 or x45. wanted an ultrabook with discrete graphics kaso budget around 30k

[donbuggy]

update lang on my thinkpad x230: quite disappointed with the quality. Out of the box i noticed flexing on the top right edge of the lid, to the point that the display bezel pops out. Then there's some wiggle with the battery.

I thought that Lenovo ThinkPads have higher quality because these are business class laptops.

The ThinkPad W540 mobile workstation is coming soon:

ThinkPad W540 | Mobile Workstation | | Lenovo (US)

[confused shoes]

Among laptops I have used.

1. ASUS. Still working after 3 years without failure
2. IBM. Battery failed within warranty period but the computer is still working after 6 years. I have changed batteries 3x.
3. Fujitsu. Failed after warranty period. Power supply failed after two years.
4. Dell. Failed within warranty period. Monitor.